TY - BOOK AU - Figes,Orlando TI - The Crimean War: a history SN - 9780805074604 AV - DK214 .F53 2010 U1 - 947/.0738 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Metropolitan Books KW - Crimean War, 1853-1856 N1 - "Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books, London, as 'Crimea'"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; Religious wars -- Eastern questions -- The Russian menace -- The end of peace in Europe -- Phoney war -- First blood to the Turks -- Alma -- Sevastopol in the autumn -- Generals January and February -- Cannon fodder -- The fall of Sevastopol -- Paris and the new order -- The Crimean War in national myth and memory N2 - From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" comes the definitive account of the Crimean War, a forgotten war that shaped the modern age. Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010023152-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010023152-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010023152-s.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010023152-t.html ER -